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Economic Development Fund
Discretionary Grant Program
Organization: Assistance League of Bend (ALB)
Organization Description: This all volunteer organization, established in 1989, seeks to
address the needs of vulnerable children and adults in Central Oregon. It is a membership
organization of 135 volunteers providing more than 11,000 volunteer hours of service in
FY 2008-2009. Nearly 2/3 of all donations received. (65%) are returned directly to the
children, families and seniors in need. Besides Operation School Bell described below,
ALB also hosted a number of other programs during FY 2007-2008 including the
following:
• 1,108 hats were made and delivered to chemotherapy patients
• 60 children attended "These Kids are Cookin"' classes
• "Be There Be Square" provided Subway coupons to 10 school children a month
for improved attendance and 14 children were awarded Sun Mountain Fun Center
tickets for perfect attendance
• 155 teddy bears were delivered to St. Charles Emergency Room, the La Pine Fire
Department and Bend Hospice for children and senior trauma patients
• Pine Tavern hosted `Breakfast with Santa" served 450 breakfasts including 46
foster children and 30 foster parents who ate at no charge
• "Secret Santa" program gave 75 presents to seniors
Project Name: Operation School Bell
Project Description: This program, which began in 1993, provides new clothing to
school children in the Bend La Pine School District living near or below the poverty line.
It is estimated that 5,000 school children in Deschutes County live in poverty or qualify
for the free lunch program. Last school year, this program provided clothing for 1,334
children.
Project Period: September 1, 2008 — May 31, 2009
Amount of Request: $3,000 ($130,000 to provide clothing, hygiene kit, back pack and
school supplies for 1,300 children)
Previous Grants:
• FY 2009 Community Grant: $7,500 Operation School Bell
Deschutes County Board of Commissioners
1300 NW Wall St., Bend, OR 97701-1960
(541) 388-6570 - Fax (541) 385-3202 - www.deschutes.org
DESCHUTES COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND
DISCRETIONARY GRANT PROGRAM APPLICATION
Direct Application to:
Commissioner Tammy Baney
Commissioner Dennis R. Luke
Commissioner Michael M. Daly
All Three Commissioners
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Project Beginning Date: q/)/6'5
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Project End Date: s/ /09
Amount of Request: 13,c, o o Date Funds Needed: As See,.., 01 s Pods i,gL€
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Address: P. 0. +'30c. 11 S City & Zip: ,M/4 Cf' 70 1
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Fax: Alternate Phone: Email: Po-ooN f6fjuJD-8n-oPiotan.j
On a separate sheet, please briefly answer the following questions:
1. Describe the applicant organization, including its purpose, leadership structure, and activities.
2. Describe the proposed project or activity.
3. Provide a timeline for completing the proposed project or activity.
4. Explain how the proposed project or activity will impact the community's economic health.
5. Identify the specific communities or groups that will benefit.
6. Itemize anticipated expenditures*. Describe how grant funds will be used and include the
source and amounts of matching funds or in-kind contributions, if any. If the grant will
support an ongoing activity, explain how it will be funded in the future.
Attach:
Proof of the applicant organization's non-profit status.
• Applicant may be contacted during the review process and asked to provide a complete line item budget.
Amount Approved:
By: Date:
Declined: By: Date:
1. Describe the applicant organization, including its purpose, leadership structure, and
activities.
The National Organization:
• Formed in the early 1900s this volunteer driven organization was the first nonprofit
organization established in the Western US to recognize the potential of volunteers
helping people to achieve a better quality of life.
• Assistance League chapters, such as the one in Bend, have become a vital contributing
part of their communities raising over $35,000,000 annually in funds that go directly
back into their individual communities.
• As an all volunteer organization Assistance League members have invested more than 2.6
million hours, touching the lives of over 1.4 million children, seniors, families and others
in need last year.
Assistance League of Bend (ALB):
• FY 2007-2008 Accomplishments:
• New clothes and hygiene kits were given to 1,334 school children in need.
• Backpacks filled with school supplies were give to those children
especially in need of help.
• 1,108 hats were made and delivered to chemo -therapy patients.
• 60 school children attended "These Kids Are Cookin"' classes.
• "Be There Be Square" provided Subway coupons to 10 school children
each month who showed improved attendance and 14 children were
awarded Sun Mountain Fun Center tickets for perfect attendance.
• 155 teddy bears were delivered to the St. Charles Emergency Room, the
LaPine Fire Department, and Bend Hospice for children and senior trauma
patients.
• Pine Tavern hosted "Breakfast with Santa" where 450 breakfasts were
served with 46 foster children and 30 foster parents eating at no charge
and the children got a teddy bear from Santa.
• Our members gave presents to 75 seniors for Christmas from "Secret
Santa."
• 65% of what we took in was returned directly to the community to those
children, seniors, families, and others in need.
• Over 11,000 volunteer hours were contributed by our 135 members.
• Operation School Bell (OSB), our largest philanthropy, started in Bend in 1993 when
ALB clothed 36 school children; that number has grown steadily over the years to an
astonishing 1,334 children clothed in the 2007/2008 school year.
2. Describe the proposed project or activity.
Operation School Bell provides new clothing to school children in the Bend La Pine School
District who are living near or below the poverty level. In Deschutes County, it is estimated that
5,000 school children either live in poverty or qualify for the free school lunch program. This is
Amount Approved:
By: Date:
Declined: By: Date:
based on the county statistics that reflect 18% live in poverty and another 16% qualify for the
assisted lunch program. These are the children we help.
Specifically, OSB provides these kids with a new wardrobe of warm clothes. The new
wardrobe includes: a winter coat, shoes, 2 pairs of jeans, 2 t -shirts, a hooded sweat shirt and
sweat pants, 6 undergarments, 6 pairs of socks, hat & gloves, and a hygiene kit containing a
toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, a comb, and deodorant for the older children. Those
identified as particularly in need also get a backpack filled with school supplies.
3. Provide a timeline for completing the proposed project or activity.
Operation School Bell runs throughout the year but is busiest at the start of the school year
and through the winter months when we try to get warm clothes to the kids when they need them
the most. So far this school year we have clothed 710 children, from the beginning of September
to the first week of October.
4. Explain how the proposed project or activity will impact the community's economic
health.
Our over -arching objectives are to advance the physical health, mental health and education
of low-income children. Program goals include:
1. Provide new wardrobes/clothing for at least 1,300 children in the 2008/2009 school year,
2. Foster self-esteem and a feeling of self-worth for both children and parents,
3. Promote family cohesion by helping to relieve economic stress,
4. Promote better attendance, school achievement, and school completion, and
5. Improve the physical health of children by providing warm clothes and hygiene supplies.
Benefits of the program include improved school attendance and enhanced self- esteem.
Because we provide warm winter clothing, we help to safeguard the physical health of the
children. We believe that the program fosters better school performance, and enhances rates of
high school graduation. One of the chief reasons that low-income students in the upper grades
fail to graduate is that they cannot afford the clothing needed for school. These kids face a stark
economic choice with a host of long-term consequences - work or school. Operation School Bell
helps these students make the right decision and stay in school.
We believe that education is the most effective tool for addressing the repeating cycles of
poverty and family dysfunction. Low self-esteem is the most commonly listed cause of
substandard academic performance, and chronic poverty can degrade the self-image of the most
resilient child or adult. Poverty and substandard academic performance are statistically linked.
The reasons for this are complex, but have nothing to do with intelligence or the innate ability of
the individual child and are the product of factors related to poverty itself. The new, clean, and
stylish clothing that we provide advances the self-esteem of at -risk students. Operation School
Bell kids are far less likely to be branded in school as "poor kids," and can more easily develop
strong bonds with a broad range of positive peers. They more readily develop the confidence
and the ability to "fit in" and stay in school.
Amount Approved: By: Date:
Declined:
By: Date:
5. Identify the specific communities or groups that will benefit.
The school children of the Bend LaPine School District that are identified by the Family
Access Network as living near or in poverty are referred to the Assistance League and are then
clothed by Operation School Bell. These children and their families are the beneficiaries of our
program.
6. Itemize anticipated expenditures*. Describe how grant funds will be used and include
the source and amounts of matching funds or in-kind contributions, if any. If the grant
will support an ongoing activity, explain how it will be funded in the future.
OPERATION SCHOOL BELL®
FY08/09 Budgeted Expenses
Budget is based on clothing 1300 children.
$ 78.50 Cost of Clothing for One Child
Jeans 2
Shirts 2
Hooded Sweatshirt 1
Sweatpants 1
Shoes 1
Underwear 6
Socks 6
Jacket 1
Hat/Gloves 1
$ 3.50 Cost of Hygiene Kit for One Child
Shampoo
Toothbrush/Toothpaste
Soap
Deodorant
Comb
$ 5.00 Backpack
$ 13.00 School Supplies
$ 100.00 Cost per Child
$130,000 OSB Operating Expenses
The grant will be used to fund the above items only. The annual budget for this fiscal
year is reflected below and shows other sources of income such as fund raisers, grants, and
membership contributions. In addition, the members contribute over 11,000 volunteer hours of
work each year to support this and other programs of ALB.
Amount Approved:
By: Date:
Declined: By: Date:
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE® of BEND
FY 2008/2009 Budget
Income
Non -Event Contributions 19,000
Grants 50,000
Fundraising Event Revenue 109,700
Program Service (Breakfast with Santa) 3,520
Interest Income 800
Membership Revenue 18,630
Total Income $201,650
Expenses
Program Service (Breakfast with Santa) 3,520
Adult Programs 3,175
Children's Programs 92,378
Operation School Bell (80,578)
Road to Reading (5,000)
These Kids Are Cooking (1,500)
Be There Be Square (800)
Hug A Bear (500)
Special Projects (1,000)
Travel (3,000)
Event Expenses 36,050
Chapter House Maintenance 2,966
Printing & Reproduction (Non -Event) 3,000
Postage & Supplies (Non -Event) 400
Utilities 5,381
Chapter House Insurance 1,700
Mortgage 8,400
National Assistance League Conference 4,200
Member Workshops 1,350
Management (Si General Expenses 11,530
Membership Expenses 13,131
Board Designated Reserves 10,000
Total Expenses
Net Surplus
$197,181
$ 4,469
Amount Approved:
By: Date:
Declined: By: Date:
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This is in response to the amendment to your organtaiorr's Articles of Incorporation Tied Witn the stale on
NCvernber 3. 1953. Wa haVe upded our reo res :o reflect the name change as indlCated above.
In March 10 6 we issued a determination letter that recognized your orgairtiZetion as exempt from federal
income tax. Our records indicate tet your organization is currently exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the
Interrnet Revenue, Cod#:.
traced o^ inrornlation subsequently submitted, we classified your organizaton as one that is nota pmvata
toundatlon within the meaning of section 508(0) of tne Code because i( is an organizstlon described ,n
section 509;e)(2).
This ciassifcation was based on ilie assumptor, that your organization's operations would continue as stated
in the application. if your organization's sources of support, or its character. ,1a r,od; oro ;c.r2 ions, or puronsv:
have changed, please let us know so we =1 consider the effect of the charge on the exempt status and
foundation status of your organizzttion.
Your organization is required to file Form 990, Return of Crcaahization Exempt from income Tax, only if its
gross receipts each year are normally more than 525,000. if a return is required, it must be (lied by the •(5LU.
Cay of the fifth month after the end of the crganization's ennuai accounting period. Tho iFw imposes a penalty
of $20 a day, up to e maximum of S IC.,000. :vhon a rcturr, is riled late, unlecu rP.:)P,Or1AhIF.. r'. i - for 747r�
CIei y.
All exempt organizations (unless specifically excluded) are liable lor taxes under the federal Insurance
Contributions Act (social security taxes) on remuneration of 5100 or more paid to each employee during ,
calendar year. Your organization Ls not Iiable for the tax imposed under the Fedora) Unemployment Tax Act
(FUTA)
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Code. Howver, these organizations arta not automatically exempt from nt.har iocar:,i excise taX�F,
Donors may deduct contributions to your organization res provrided in section 170 of the Codec. Bequests,
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nuroose6f'I t ev meet Lhe applicable., provisions of sections 2055. 2106, and 2522 of the Co!1!'-.
Oct 09 08 10:51a Residence League Of Bend
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YOUr Organization is not fErQUlr=:d, is tile ;eeer2[ ir_ccrne tc. i2:urr1S unless it is ubfeGt to tre taX on unrelated
ousiness income under Section 511 of the Code. if your orranizatiori iv Subject to this 1.2X, i, must ffle an
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not determining whether any of your orear;itionrs present or proposed activities ere un'r?ILted trade, nr
eus;ness as cafln&r; in s.r_tion 513 of the Code_
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exemption before July 15, 1557, and had a copy of their exemption application on July 15, 1937, are also
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and the exemption letter to an,/ individual who requests such documents in person or in writing.
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Because this letter could help resolve any questions bnut your organization's oxcrpt statUf.1 aid tourer?tior
status. you shoulc k6eo i± vith tho or;aniZ.tion':2 orrnr;rent recover;;.
IT you have any questions, please a!I us _r the telephone number shown in the he.-idinc of this lever.
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Sincerely,
i- i:kittls. Director, T C_!GE
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